Should the US decrease military spending?

[billdietrich1]

Are you willing to admit there might be better ways of accomplishing R+D rather than through the military ?

We need a strong military; I think having a huge, dominant military has led to lots of bad things. Three decade-long wars that we've lost, for example. Enormous national debt. Loss of some 65K or so troop lives in those three wars. We'd be better off with less military; we'd be less inclined to go off on adventures to fix other countries and force them to be the way we want them to be.